Tusla

The healthcare watchdog has criticised a three-month delay in organising a key child protection conference for a young infant at risk of significant h(...)

The board of youth work charity Extern had been given “assurances” by its former chief executive that a serious case of child sexual abuse had been r(...)

It is not unusual to hear a judge refer to a case as “among the worst I’ve ever dealt with”. The phrase has become an almost judicial cliche, like cal(...)

A landmark report into deaths of children in State care, published in 2012, found “systematic failures” were resulting in the most vulnerable young p(...)

Nearly half of the deaths of children and young people who died while in the care of the State in the last decade were due to suicide or drug overdos(...)

The parents of a teenage girl with autism who has spent 50 days in an emergency hospital bed have asked the High Court to make orders requiring that s(...)

The Hyde & Seek creche group, featured in an RTÉ Investigates programme, will go on trial in February for breaking childcare laws. The Dublin cre(...)

A former senior figure in St John Ambulance has been interviewed by the Garda in relation to allegations he sexually abused a juvenile in the voluntar(...)

An organisation working with vulnerable young people “concealed” the sexual abuse of a teenager by one of its staff members from Tusla, the State’s ch(...)

At-risk children in north Dublin continue to face “unacceptable” waits before social workers assess referrals made to Tusla, the child and family agen(...)